netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] linux: Signal datapath that unaligned Netlink message can be received

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Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:23:43 -0800
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
Cc:	"dev@...nvswitch.org" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] linux: Signal datapath that unaligned Netlink message
 can be received

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com> wrote:
> diff --git a/lib/dpif-linux.c b/lib/dpif-linux.c
> index 6c482d0..2d8a1aa 100644
> --- a/lib/dpif-linux.c
> +++ b/lib/dpif-linux.c
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct dpif_linux_dp {
>      /* Attributes. */
>      const char *name;                  /* OVS_DP_ATTR_NAME. */
>      const uint32_t *upcall_pid;        /* OVS_DP_ATTR_UPCALL_PID. */
> +    uint32_t user_features;            /* OVS_DP_ATTR_USER_FEATURES */
>      struct ovs_dp_stats stats;         /* OVS_DP_ATTR_STATS. */
>      struct ovs_dp_megaflow_stats megaflow_stats;
>                                         /* OVS_DP_ATTR_MEGAFLOW_STATS.*/
> @@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ dpif_linux_open(const struct dpif_class *class OVS_UNUSED, const char *name,
>          dp_request.cmd = OVS_DP_CMD_NEW;
>          upcall_pid = 0;
>          dp_request.upcall_pid = &upcall_pid;
> +        dp_request.user_features |= OVS_DP_F_UNALIGNED;
>      } else {
>          dp_request.cmd = OVS_DP_CMD_GET;
>      }

Does this handle the case where we are opening an existing datapath
and need to update the features?
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